Updated Sunday at 8:00 AM New York time. The Scouting News is pleased to release our WHL Draft list for 2015. The top 300 prospects are ranked, graded and assessed based on where we feel they'd be drafted right here and now if the draft was held today. Top prospects who are at the top of every teams draft list at this point of time include future household names like Ty Smith, Jonathan Tychonick, Jackson Leppard, Riley Stotts, Carson Focht, Jett Woo, Tyler Popowich, Keenan Taphorn, Koby Morrisseau and many others (the entire list is to lengthy to discuss).

In the past fifteen years The Scouting News has exclusively interviewed many of the games brightest stars FIRST (long before they were stars)! The alumni list the likes of John Carlson, Cam Fowler, Alex Pietrangelo, Kevin Shattenkirk, Aaron Ekblad, Torey Krug, Micheal Del Zotto, Eric Johnson, Morgan Reilly, Ryan McDonagh, Seth Jones and a ton of others, and today we're proud to introduce you to a future star, who'll one day be a high NHL first round draft pick, Bode Wilde, a huge 6'3", 184 pounds defender with a big shot, size, skill and offensive smarts (70 points in 57 games this season) to boot!

If 2000 prodigy Joseph Veleno gets an early pass into the QMJHL (which we expect he will), it will be a wide open race for the number one spot in 2016! Don't be surprised to see Yohan Plamondon (2000, 5'11'', 165 pounds, Laurentides Conquerants Bantam AAA) become one of a dozen players who could step up to the plate, in our opinion, to claim top honors. We've got his first ever exclusive English language interview today in our member's area.

The OHL Draft process for the class of 2016 has moved into full swing now with many elite tournaments in the book, and top prospects fielding offers from the top-end NHL agencies. The Scouting News breaks down the top 272 prospects for this exciting draft class! Players making major headway up the rankings list this month include the likes of Connor Roberts, Eric Guest, Akil Thomas, Ethan Manderville, D.J. King, Chris Playfair, Barrett Hayton, Hunter Holmes, Marino Moro, Nathan Dunkley, Aidan Dudas, Luke Moncada, Braydon Leeking, Jukka Schotter, Christian Clark, Chet Phillips and Mitchell Pellarin!

The Scouting News is pleased to release a copy of its 2015 OHL Draft Pre-Season top 300 prospect list. This list is a season long collaboration (which started back in August) of cross referencing seventy two (72) top experts (coaches, managers, scouts, agents and advisors) who have spent tens of thousands of hours in the rink's viewing games (and even more importantly) practice and training sessions over the course of many years with this age group. We'd like to thank our sources for going the extra mile, and assisting us in putting together a list of the best-qualified prospects. Risers in this months edition include Gabe Vilardi, Ryan McLeod, Brett Neumann, Quinn Hanna, Nick Suzuki, Evan Bouchard, Matthew Strome, Colton Incze, Shane Bulitka, Finn Evans, Jaden Peca and many more! The complete top 301 list is in our members area!

If the OHL draft was held today we would recommend Mac Lowry (1999, Quinte Red Devils Minor Midget AAA, 5'11", 165 pounds) to any team out there as a very solid top eight round candidate for selection, because, let's face it, he has the wheels, offensive talent and vision (play anticipation) to have a better than average chance of succeeding at the next level, and after the current season no one will ever dare to doubt or even question his drive, hockey sense, intestinal fortitude and willpower!

The 2015 QMJHL draft is not that far away in time and we are making the last ditch effort of identifying prospects who should be on the radar with teams without fail going into the Draft Day and, let us say, we think Logan ONeil (6'0", 165), whose 37 points in 34 regular season games were a solid boost to the Cape Breton Tradesmen in a campaign fraught with adversity this season, definitely needs to be a high QMJHL Draft Selection without a doubt!

If we were running a junior hockey program in the province of Ontario this year we'd make an early addition to our prospect watch list for the next few years in Jordan Power (2001, Minor Bantam Ottawa Senators AAA, 5'9', 130 pounds), a kid, who has stunned everyone this season by rebounding from adversity (major injury) in a way (and time) that were flatout phenomenal!

Mississauga Rebels coach Geoff Schomogyi did an outstanding job over the last 12 months on the player developmental side of things, and the proof is in the pudding when one extrapolates how many of the team's best players rose up in the projected rankings for The Scouting News' class of 2016 OHL Draft list. Take Klaise (2000, Mississauga Rebels, 5'7", 155 pounds) for example, as the season went on Markus got better and better (especially in the skating department), and his ranking has been meteorically adjusted (up) to reflect this improvement.

The game of recruiting has evolved over the last decade and teams are no longer looking for skill and talent alone, they also want those intangibles (work ethic, character, the will to persevere against the odds, grit, etc) which separate the men from the boys at the next level, and Evan McIntyre (2000, 5'9", 145 pounds), our rock solid top 100 contender for the 2016 OHL draft this month, showed all of the above qualities over the last 12 months, as a first year transfer to the Toronto Red Wings, who was a big difference maker and role model both on and off the ice!

One thing is crystal clear to us, the USA NTDP, WHL and NCAA D1 will all be going after Erik Middendorf (2000, Coyotes U14 Tier 1, 5'11", 160) hard on the recruiting front this year. We always want to get an inside track on the recruiting race, so we got in touch with Erik today, who by the way, was the top scorer in the U14 Tier 1 league this season with whopping 82 points in 50 games, and got the first dibs on his banner 2015 campaign, his secret to being a hockey star and a team catalyst and, mostly importantly, the goals and career objections he is mulling over presently!